YOUNG DD 312
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
Keel Laid January 28 1919 - Launched May 8 1919 LOST (Wrecked) September 8 1923 on Honda Point CA 20 of her crew were lost and remain on duty Wreck sold October 19 1925 |
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- Covers Page 1 (1982)
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Mailers |
1982-09-08 |
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59th Anniversary of the Honda Point CA tragedy.
Other Information
Wrecked at Honda Point, CA with six other Destroyers in multiple grounding...USS FULLER DD-297, USS WOODBURY DD-309,
USS DELPHY DD-261, USS NICHOLAS DD-311, USS S.P. LEE DD-310, and USS CHAUNCEY DD-296
NAMESAKE - John Young (1740-1781)
Young was a captain in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, commander of the SARATOGA which was lost at sea. He began his seafaring career at an early age in the colonial merchant marine and, at the start of the American Revolution, was commissioned 23rd on the list of Captains in the Continental Navy. On September 20 1776, the Continental Congress directed Young to take the Sloop-of-War INDEPENDENCE to Martinique to protect American mercantile shipping in the West Indies. Collaterally, INDEPENDENCE was to raid British shipping whenever the opportunity arose. On July 5 1777, Young was ordered to Nantes, France, and subsequently arrived at Lorient with two prizes. On February 17 1778, while in French waters, he sailed through the French Fleet, saluting that nation's government with a 13-gun salute. In return he received a nine-gun salute, one of the earliest salutes rendered by the French government to the fledgling American government. At the time, John Paul Jones was on board INDEPENDENCE. Young returned to America in the spring of 1778 and successively commanded two Pennsylvania Privateers, BUCKSKIN and IMPERTENENT, before he was given command of the Sloop-of-War SARATOGA - then fitting out at Philadelphia--in May 1780. Young took her to sea on August 13 1780 and, in the course of the ship's first cruise, captured one prize before she returned to port for repairs and alterations. Subsequent cruises were more successful, as Young commanded SARATOGA on three more sweeps at sea in which he took a total of eight more prizes. Young proved himself a daring and resourceful commander. On one occasion, he took SARATOGA between two British ships and captured both. Largely as a result of his dedication and emphasis on training, SARATOGA compiled a distinguished, but altogether brief, record before her untimely and unexplained loss. SARATOGA set sail from Cap Francais, in what is now the Dominican Republic, on March 15 1781. After taking a prize three days later, the Sloop-of-War became separated from her later that day when a strong gale swept through the area, the high winds nearly swamping the prize commanded by Midshipman Penfield. After the storm passed by, SARATOGA was nowhere to be seen, having vanished without a trace
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